The Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM) is one of the main sources of information for measuring violent deaths and, in particular, homicides in Brazil. However, between 1996 and 2021, there were 294,752 violent deaths in which the cause was not defined (or 8,7% of the...

The Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM) is one of the main sources of information for measuring violent deaths and, in particular, homicides in Brazil. However, between 1996 and 2021, there were 294,752 violent deaths in which the cause was not defined (or 8,7% of the...

The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...

Economic analysis has approached the problem of the neutrality of money through methods of supply-demand equilibrium in which changes in aggregate demand due to monetary or fiscal policy are equivalent to changes in the denomination of the monetary standard. We re-examine this question using...

The burgeoning use of ordinal data throughout the Empirical Sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments. Neither Pearson's Coefficient of Variation nor the Sharpe Ratio, relative variation comparison workhorses in cardinal worlds, are...

Economic analysis has approached the problem of the neutrality of money through methods of supply-demand equilibrium in which changes in aggregate demand due to monetary or fiscal policy are equivalent to changes in the denomination of the monetary standard. We re-examine this question using...